安贫是中世纪西欧修道院规章中一个重要的观念，它要求修道者放弃私人属有的财产并安于贫困朴素的宗教生活。作为圣•方济各的追随者，由阿西西的圣•克莱尔所建立的贫穷修女会是13世纪一个以安贫为立会核心，致力于使修道院真正保持贫穷状态的女性宗教团体。相对于同时代较为依靠外界捐赠的其他女修道院，圣•克莱尔贫穷修女会对安贫的理解和实践都有自己较为独特的处理方式，同时借助教会和方济会等多方力量，她们所在的圣•达米安修道院在克莱尔时期基本做到了良好运转。贫穷修女会不仅将安贫看成如主流的圣•本尼迪克特规章所提倡的一种对个人的自身要求，也强调了其对修道院集体在接收财产等问题上的纲领性指导意义。本文将以圣•克莱尔的贫穷修女会为核心，结合它的发展历程回顾基督教修道院安贫观的起源，探讨圣•克莱尔贫穷修女会独特的安贫实践以及她们与方济会男修士和罗马教会的交流沟通状况，从而对西欧中世纪修道院的安贫观念、方济会早期的发展以及中世纪中期西欧女修道院的实际运转状况增加更深的理解。 Serving in poverty was required in medieval western European monastic orders that regulated friars and nuns to content the religious life of impoverishment and chaste, vowed to abandon all their possessions or ownerships in the secular world. In the 13th century, St. Clare of Assisi who was a female Franciscan led the nuns in the monastery of St. Damiano, also known as the Poor Ladies or Poor Clares, to obey the perfect poverty order as their principle profession. Compared to the other convents at the same time, the Poor Ladies demonstrated their specialties in both the conceptions and practices of poverty. Meanwhile, with the assistances of the Church, the St. Franciscans, those sisters generally maintained sufficently. The Poor Ladies not only treated poverty as an individual discipline following the example of St. Benedict Order, but also emphasized its importance of making decisions on receiving endowments. Their traits of development illustrated how a non-mainstream convent in medieval Italy established and survived. This article will primarily discuss the Poor Ladies and review the poverty order in the history of Christian monasteries, also outline the unique definition of poverty and practice of St. Clare, as well as analyze how they communicated with the male friars and the Church, therefore to generate a deeper understanding of the early Franciscans and convents in the High Middle Ages.